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Publications
("in press" or "accepted for publication" means accepted for publication but not yet published; "submitted" means submitted but not yet accepted for publication; * indicates most significant publications)
Books, Edited Volumes
(a) Prepared before joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS (ed.) 1977 Archaeology and Anthropology: Areas of Mutual Interest. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. 176pp.
D. GREEN, C. HASELGROVE and M. SPRIGGS (eds) 1978 Social Organization and Settlement: Contributions from Geography, Anthropology and Archaeology. 2 Vols. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. 519pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 33%)
M. SPRIGGS 1981 Bombs and Butter: The Revival of Ancient Irrigation Techniques for a Market Economy, A Pacific Example. Occasional Papers in Prehistory 2, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 37pp.
M. SPRIGGS* 1983 Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology. New Directions in Archaeology Series, Cambridge University Press. 160pp.
M. SPRIGGS* 1987 Vegetable Kingdoms: Taro Irrigation and Pacific Prehistory. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan (ANU PhD thesis 1981). 486pp., incl. appendices, maps.
M. SPRIGGS and P.L. TANAKA* 1988 Na Mea 'Imi I Ka Wa Kahiko: An Annotated Bibliography of Hawaiian Archaeology. Asian and Pacific Archaeology Series no. 11. SSRI, University of Hawaii at Manoa. 303+xvi pp. (Spriggs contribution 66%)
M. SPRIGGS 1989 The Past, Present and Future of Traditional Taro Irrigation in the Pacific: an Example of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Occasional Paper Series No.3. SPC, Nouméa. 19pp.
(b) Prepared after joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS and D. ROE 1989 Planning for Preservation: a General Evaluation of the Cultural Resources of Erromango, Tafea District, Republic of Vanuatu. National Heritage Studies, Canberra. 130+iii pp. (Spriggs contribution 80%)
R.J. MAY and M. SPRIGGS (eds)* 1990 The Bougainville Crisis. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. 137+ix pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 40%)
M. SPRIGGS (ed.)* 1990 Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 142+iv pp.
M. SPRIGGS and D. DENOON (eds)* 1992 The Bougainville Crisis; 1991 Update. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, Australian National University and Crawford House Press, Bathurst. 228+x pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 65%)
P.V. KIRCH with M. SAHLINS, M. WEISLER and M. SPRIGGS 1992 The Archaeology of History, Volume 2 of P.V. Kirch and M. Sahlins, Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. (Spriggs overall contribution 22%)
M. SPRIGGS, D. YEN, W. AMBROSE, R. JONES, A. THORNE and A. ANDREWS (eds)* 1993 A Community of Culture: The People and Prehistory of the Pacific. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 21, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 289+vi pp. (Spriggs editing contribution 30%)
M. SMITH, M. SPRIGGS and B. FANKHAUSER (eds)*1993 Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. 312+vii pp. (Spriggs Editing Contribution 30%)
M. SPRIGGS* 1997 The Island Melanesians. Blackwells, Oxford. 317+xxvi pp. (to be published April/May 1997)
R. BLENCH and M. SPRIGGS (eds)* (in press.) Archaeology and Language, 3 vols. Vol. 1: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations. Vol. 2: Correlating Archaeological and Linguistic Sequences. Vol. 3: Models of Prehistory Drawn from Language. One World Archaeology Series, Routledge, London. (Spriggs editing contribution 45%)
Contributions to Refereed Journals
(a) Prepared before joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS and M.E. SULLIVAN 1981 Water Under the Bridge: Comments on Farrington and Bellwood's Prehistoric Irrigation Hydrology of Pondfield Taro, Archaeology in Oceania 16(3):179-181. (Spriggs contribution 50%)
M. SPRIGGS 1982 Taro Cropping Systems in the S.E. Asian-Pacific Region: Archaeological Evidence, Archaeology in Oceania 17(1):7-15.
M. SPRIGGS 1982 Archaeological Research on Aneityum, Southern Vanuatu, 1978-1979: A Summary, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 3:77-87.
G.S. HOPE and M. SPRIGGS 1982 A Preliminary Pollen Sequence from Aneityum Island, South Vanuatu, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 2:88-94. (Spriggs contribution 33%)
M. SPRIGGS 1984 Early Coconut Remains from the South Pacific, Journal of the Polynesian Society 93(1):71-76.
M. SPRIGGS* 1984 The Lapita Cultural Complex: Origins, Distribution, Contemporaries and Successors, Journal of Pacific History 19(3 and 4):46-65.
D. VASEY, D. HARRIS, G. OLSON, M. SPRIGGS and B. TURNER, II 1984 The Role of Standing Water and Waterlogged Soils in Raised Field, Drained Field and Island Bed Agriculture, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 5(1):63-72. (Spriggs contribution 15%)
M. SPRIGGS* 1985 "A School in Every District": The Cultural Geography of Conversion on Aneityum, Southern Vanuatu, Journal of Pacific History 20(1 and 2):51-64.
M. SPRIGGS 1993 University of Hawaii Field Schools in Archaeology 1950-1984, Hawaiian Archaeology 2:18-27.
P.V. KIRCH and M. SPRIGGS 1993 A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Upper Anahulu Valley O'ahu, Hawaiian Archaeology 2:4-9. (Spriggs contribution 33%)
(b) Prepared after joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS and D. MILLER 1988 A Previously Unreported Bronze Kettledrum from the Kai Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 8:79-89. (Spriggs contribution 80%)
T.F. FLANNERY, P. KIRCH, J. SPECHT and M. SPRIGGS 1988 Holocene Mammal Faunas from Archaeological Sites in Island Melanesia, Archaeology in Oceania 23(3):89-94. (Spriggs contribution 15%)
S. WICKLER and M. SPRIGGS* 1988 Pleistocene Human Occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Antiquity 62(237):703-6. (Spriggs contribution 40%)
M. SPRIGGS 1988 Fragments of What? Thoughts on the "Pieces of Paradise" Exhibition at the Australian Museum, Australian Archaeology 26:66-75.
M. SPRIGGS and C. CHIPPENDALE 1989 The Human Settlement of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: Special Supplement (Introduction), Antiquity 63:128. (Spriggs contribution 50%)
M. SPRIGGS* 1989 The Dating of the Island S.E. Asian Neolithic: an Attempt at Chronometric Hygiene and Linguistic Correlation, Antiquity, 63:587-613.
C. GOSDEN, J. ALLEN, W. AMBROSE, D. ANSON, J. GOLSON, R. GREEN, P. KIRCH, I. LILLEY, J. SPECHT and M. SPRIGGS* 1989 Lapita Sites of the Bismarck Archipelago, Antiquity 63:561-86. (Spriggs contribution 10%)
M. SPRIGGS 1989 Blind Freddy in Sydney? Australian Archaeology 28:121.
M. SPRIGGS and S. WICKLER* 1989 Archaeological Research on Erromango: Recent Data on Southern Melanesian Prehistory, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 9:68-91. (Spriggs contribution 75%)
M. SPRIGGS 1990 Twenty-two Authors in Search of a Paradigm/Contextual Archaeology What's in it for me? Australian Archaeology 30:99-104.
M. SPRIGGS 1990 Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Research in Maluku 1975 and 1977: an Unfinished Story, Cakalele: Journal of Maluku Studies. 1(1-2):51-65.
M. SPRIGGS*1991 "Preceded by Forest": Changing interpretations of Landscape Change on Kaho'olawe, Asian Perspectives 30(1):71-116. (Revised version of 1988 paper)
M. SPRIGGS* 1991 Facing the Nation: Hawaiians and Archaeologists in an Era of Sovereignty, The Contemporary Pacific 3(2):379-92.
M. SPRIGGS* 1992 Alternative Prehistories for Bougainville: Regional, National or Micronational, The Contemporary Pacific 4(2):269-98.
T. LOY, M. SPRIGGS and S. WICKLER* 1992 Direct Evidence for Human Use of Plants 28,000 years ago: Starch Residues on Stone Artifacts from the Northern Solomons, Antiquity 66:898-912. (Spriggs contribution 33%)
M. SPRIGGS and A. ANDERSON* 1993 Late Colonization of East Polynesia, Antiquity 67:200-19. (Spriggs contribution 65%)
M. SPRIGGS 1994 Ancestral Oceanic Society and the Origins of the Hawaiians, Hawaiian Archaeology 3: 71-6.
M. SPRIGGS 1994 The Failure of the Bougainville Peace Talks, Pacific Research 7(4):3-7.
M. SPRIGGS 1995 Roadkill Archaology on Lana'i: a Historic House Site at Kahemano (State Site 1529), Hawaiian Archaeology 4: 45-46.
J. LYNCH and M. SPRIGGS 1995 Anejom Numerals: the (Mis)adventures of a Counting System, Te Reo 38:37-52. (Spriggs contribution 25%)
M. SPRIGGS (in press) Who Taught Marx, Engels and Morgan about Australian Aborigines? History and Anthropology.
M. SPRIGGS (submitted) Research Questions in Maluku Archaeology. Submitted to Cakalele: Journal of Maluku Studies.
M. SPRIGGS, P. VETH and S. O'CONNOR (submitted) In the Footsteps of Wallace: the First Two Seasons of Archaeological Research in the Aru Islands, Maluku. Submitted to Cakalele: Journal of Maluku Studies. (Spriggs contribution 40%)
Contributions to Books, Conference Proceedings
(a) Prepared before joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS 1977 Introduction: Where the Hell are We? (or a Young Man's Quest), in M.J.T. Spriggs (ed.), Archaeology and Anthropology: Areas of Mutual Interest, pp.3-17. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.
M. SPRIGGS and D. MILLER 1979 Ambon-Lease: A study of Contemporary Pottery Making and Trade in Eastern Indonesia and its Archaeological Relevance, in M. Millett (ed.), Pottery and the Archaeologist, pp.25-34. Occasional Paper No. 4 of the Institute of Archaeology, London. (Spriggs contribution 60%)
M. SPRIGGS 1982 Traditional Practices in Relation in Freshwater Resources for Human Use in Papua New Guinea: Past Neglect and Future Possibilities, in L. Morauta, J. Pernetta and W. Heaney (eds), Traditional Conservation in Papua New Guinea: Implications for Today, pp.257-273. IASER Monograph 16.
M. SPRIGGS 1982 Irrigation in Melanesia: Formative Adaptation and Intensification, in R.J. May and H. Nelson (eds), Melanesia: Beyond Diversity, Vol. I, pp.309-324. Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
M. SPRIGGS 1982 Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Irrigation Techniques in the Pacific: Labour Inputs, Yields and Cropping Cycles, in IFS Regional Meeting on Edible Aroids, Suva, Fiji, November 1981, pp.256-271. IFS Provisional Report No. 11, Stockholm.
M. SPRIGGS* 1983 Another Way of Telling: Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology, in M.J.T. Spriggs (ed.), Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology, pp.1-9. New Directions in Archaeology Series, Cambridge University Press.
M. SPRIGGS* 1984 Taro Irrigation Techniques in the Pacific, in S. Chandra (ed.), The Edible Aroids, pp.123-135. Oxford University Press.
M. SPRIGGS 1985 Notes on Kahana Historic Land Use and Settlement Pattern. Appendix A, in A.T. Walker and P.H. Rosendahl, Testing of Cultural Remains Associated with the Kahana Desilting Basin, Honolua Watershed, Land of Kahana, Lahaina District, County of Maui, Hawaii, pp.A-1 to A-3. P. Rosendahl Inc.
M. SPRIGGS* 1985 The Lapita Cultural Complex, in R. Kirk and E. Szathmary (eds), Out of Asia: Peopling of the Americas and the Pacific, pp.185-206. Journal of Pacific History, Canberra. (Reprint of Spriggs 1984 article)
M. SPRIGGS* 1985 Prehistoric Humanly-Induced Landscape Enhancement in the Pacific: Examples and Implications, in I. Farrington (ed.), Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Tropics, pp.409-434. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford. BAR International Series 232.
M. SPRIGGS* 1986 Landscape, Land Use and Political Transformation in Southern Melanesia, in P.V. Kirch (ed.), Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation, pp.6-19. Cambridge University Press.
M. SPRIGGS* 1988 'Preceded by Forest': Changing Interpretations of Landscape Change on Kaho'olawe, Appendix 1 in P. Rosendahl, A.E. Haun, J. Halbig, M. Kaschko and M.S. Allen, Kaho'olawe Excavations 1982-3: Data Recovery Project, Vol.2, pp.I.1-I.58. P. Rosendahl Inc. for US Navy.
M. SPRIGGS* 1989 The Hawaiian Transformation of Ancestral Polynesian Society: Conceptualizing Chiefly States, in B. Bender, J. Gledhill and M. Larsen (eds), State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization, pp.57-73. Unwin Hyman, London.
M. SPRIGGS* 1989 God's Police and Damned Whores: Images of Archaeology in Hawaii, in P. Gathercole and D. Lowenthal (eds), The Politics of the Past, pp.118-129. Unwin Hyman, London.
M. SPRIGGS* 1990 Why Irrigation Matters in Pacific Prehistory, in D. Yen and J.M.J. Mummery (eds), Pacific Production Systems, pp.174-189. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.18, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
(b) Prepared after joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS 1988 Cultural Resources of the Proposed Erromango Kauri Reserve and Adjacent Areas, in FAO Working Document 1, Programme VCP/VAN/ 6755, 27pp. FAO, Rome.
M. SPRIGGS 1990 Introduction: the Lapita Design Project, in M. Spriggs (ed.) Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988, pp.1-5. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS* 1990 Dating Lapita: Another View. in M. Spriggs (ed.), Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988, pp.6-27. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS* 1990 The Changing Face of Lapita: Transformation of a Design, in M. Spriggs (ed.) Lapita Design, Form and Composition: Proceedings of the Lapita Design Workshop, Canberra, December 1988, pp.83-122. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.19, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS 1990 Bougainville December 1989 - January 1990: a Personal History, in R.J. May and M. Spriggs (eds) The Bougainville Crisis, pp.25-30. Crawford House Press, Bathurst.
M. SPRIGGS and R.J. MAY 1990 Postscript: August 1990, in R.J. May and M. Spriggs (eds) The Bougainville Crisis, pp.122-127. Crawford House Press, Bathurst. (Spriggs contribution 70%)
M. SPRIGGS* 1991 Nissan, the Island in the Middle, in F.J. Allen and C. Gosden (eds), Results of the Lapita Homeland Project, pp.222-43. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.20, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 Archaeological and Linguistic Prehistory in the North Solomons, in T. Dutton, M. Ross and D. Tryon (eds) The Language Game: Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock, pp.417-26. Pacific Linguistics Series C-110, Department of Linguistics, RSPacS, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS and W. MUMFORD 1992 Southern Vanuatu Rock Art, in J. Macdonald and I. Haskovec (eds), State of the Art: Regional Rock Art Studies in Australia and Melanesia, pp.128-43. Occasional AURA Publication No. 6, Australian Rock Art Association, Melbourne. (Spriggs contribution 70%)
M. SPRIGGS and P.V. KIRCH* 1992 'Auwai, Kanawai and Waiwai: Irrigation in Kawailoa-Uka, in P.V. Kirch, with M. Sahlins, M. Weisler and M. Spriggs, The Archaeology of History, pp.118-64, Volume 2 of P.V. Kirch and M. Sahlins, Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. (Spriggs contribution 60%)
M. SPRIGGS 1992 Lapita Origins, Distribution, Contemporaries and Successors Revisited, in P. Bellwood (ed.) Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990: Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Volume 2, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 11, pp.306-12. IPPA, Canberra and Asosiasi Prehistorisi Indonesia, Jakarta.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 Considering Meacham's Considerations on Southeast Asia, in P. Bellwood (ed.) Indo-Pacific Prehistory 1990: Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Volume 2, Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 11, pp.408-12. IPPA, Canberra and Asosiasi Prehistorisi Indonesia, Jakarta.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 Bougainville Update: August 1990 to May 1991, in M. Spriggs and D. Denoon (eds), The Bougainville Crisis: 1991 Update, pp.8-41. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, ANU and Crawford House Press, Bathurst.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 Bougainville Update: May to October 1991, in M. Spriggs and D. Denoon (eds), The Bougainville Crisis: 1991 Update, pp.182-209. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, ANU and Crawford House Press, Bathurst.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 The Need for a Multinational Supervisory Team on Bougainville and Buka, in M. Spriggs and D. Denoon (eds), The Bougainville Crisis: 1991 Update, pp.170-81. Political and Social Change Monograph No. 16, Department of Political and Social Change, RSPacS, ANU and Crawford House Press, Bathurst.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 What Happens to Lapita in Melanesia? in J.C. Galipaud (ed.), Lapita et Peuplement: Actes du Colloque Lapita, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie,Janvier 1992, pp. 219-30. ORSTOM, Nouméa.
M. SPRIGGS and R. JONES 1993 Professor, in M. Spriggs, D. Yen, W. Ambrose, R. Jones, A. Thorne and A. Andrews (eds), A Community of Culture: The People and Prehistory of the Pacific, pp.27-31. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 21, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (Spriggs contribution 60%)
M. SPRIGGS* 1993 Island Melanesia: the Last 10,000 Years, in M. Spriggs, D. Yen, W. Ambrose, R. Jones, A. Thorne and A. Andrews (eds) Community of Culture: The People and Prehistory of the Pacific, pp. 187-205. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No.21, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS 1993 How Much of the Lapita Design System Represents the Human Face?, in P.J. Dark and R.G. Rose (eds), Artistic Heritage in a Changing Pacific, pp.7-14. Crawford House Press, Bathurst.
M. SPRIGGS 1993 Bougainvilleans, in Cultural Survival (eds) State of the Nations: A Report on the World's Endangered Peoples, pp.100-01. Beacon Press, New York.
M. SPRIGGS 1993 Quantifying Women's Oppression in Prehistory: the Aneityum (Vanuatu) Case, in H. Du Cros and L. Smith (eds) Women in Archaeology: A Feminist Critique, pp. 143-50. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 23, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
M. SMITH, M. SPRIGGS and B. FANKHAUSER 1993 Sahul in Review: an Introduction, in M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds), Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia, pp.1-7. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (Spriggs contribution 40%)
M. SPRIGGS 1993 Pleistocene Agriculture in the Pacific: Why Not? in M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds), Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia pp. 137-43. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU.
C. FREDERICKSEN, M. SPRIGGS AND W. AMBROSE* 1993 Pamwak Rockshelter: a Pleistocene Rockshelter on Manus Island, PNG, in M. Smith, M. Spriggs and B. Fankhauser (eds), Sahul in Review: Pleistocene Archaeology in Australia, New Guinea and Island Melanesia, pp. 144-52. Occasional Papers in Prehistory No. 24, Department of Prehistory, RSPacS, ANU. (Spriggs contribution 40%)
M. SPRIGGS 1993 The Current Relevance of Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Systems, in N. Williams and G. Baines (eds), Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Wisdom for Sustainable Development, pp. 109-14. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS 1994 Early Agriculture in the Pacific Islands, in Australian Academy of Science, Environmental Science: A Textbook for Senior Secondary Students, pp.135-8. Australian Academy of Science, Canberra.
M. SPRIGGS* 1995 The Lapita Culture and Austronesian Prehistory in Oceania, in P. Bellwood, J. Fox and D. Tryon (eds) The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, pp.112-133. Department of Anthropology, RSPAS, ANU.
M. SPRIGGS* 1996 How Southeast Asian is Lapita?, in T. Akazawa and E. Szathmary (eds) Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, pp.322-346. Oxford University Press.
M. SPRIGGS* 1996 Agriculture and What went Before in Island Melanesia, in D. Harris (ed.) The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, pp. 524-537. UCL Press, London.
M. SPRIGGS* 1996 Chronology and Colonisation in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific: New Data and an Evaluation, in J. Davidson, G. Irwin, F. Leach, A. Pawley and D. Brown (eds) Oceanic Culture History: Essays in Honour of Roger Green, pp. 33-50. New Zealand Journal of Archaeology, Dunedin.
M. SPRIGGS 1996 The L'Archéologie du Vanuatu dans le Contexte de l'Océanie, in J. Bonnemaison, K. Huffman, C. Kaufmann and D. Tryon (eds) Vanuatu, Océanie: Arts des Iles de Cendre et de Corail, pp. 76-81. Réunion des Musées Nationaux and ORSTOM, Paris.
M. SPRIGGS 1996 La Culture d'irrigation du Taro au Vanuatu, in J. Bonnemaison, K. Huffman, C. Kaufmann and D. Tryon (eds) Vanuatu, Océanie: Arts des Iles de Cendre et de Corail, pp. 94-97. Réunion des Musées Nationaux and ORSTOM, Paris.
M. SPRIGGS 1996 Archéologie Insulaire, in S. Dunis (ed.) Le Pacifique ou l'Odyssée de l'Espace: Bilan Civilisationniste du Grand Océan, pp. 19-37. Klincksieck, Paris.
M. SPRIGGS 1996 The Archaeology of Vanuatu in Pacific Perspective, in J. Bonnemaison, C. Kaufmann, K. Huffman and D. Tryon (eds) Arts. of Vanuatu, pp. 90-93. Crawford House Press, Bathurst.
M. SPRIGGS 1996 An Agricultural Art: Taro Irrigation in Vanuatu, in J. Bonnemaison, C. Kaufmann, K. Huffman and D. Tryon (eds) Arts. of Vanuatu, pp. 74-78. Crawford House Press, Bathurst.
M. SPRIGGS* (in press) Pacific Archaeologies: Contested Ground in the Construction of Pacific History, in R. Borofsky and D. Hanlon (eds) Pacific Histories. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
M. SPRIGGS (in press) The Solomon Islands as Bridge and Barrier in the Settlement of the Pacific, in W.S. Ayres (ed.) Southeast Asian and Pacific Archaeology. Washington State University Press, Pullman.
M. SPRIGGS (in press) The Dating of Non Nok Tha and the "Gakushuin Factor", in F.D. Bulbeck (ed.), Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Bronze Cultures.
M. SPRIGGS* (in press) Landscape Catastrophe and Landscape Enhancement: Are Either or Both True in the Pacific? in P. Kirch and T. Hunt (eds), Historical Ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric Environmental and Landscape Change Yale University Press.
M. SPRIGGS (in press) The Holocene Pacific, in D. Denoon (ed.) The Cambridge History of Pacific Islanders. Cambridge University Press.
M. SPRIGGS* (in press) From Taiwan to the Tuamotus: Absolute Dating of Austronesian Language Spread and Major Subgroups, in R. Blench and M. Spriggs (eds) Archaeology and Language, Vol. 2, Correlating Archaeological and Linguistic Sequences. London: Routledge.
M. SPRIGGS (submitted) Can Hunter Gatherers Live in Tripical Rainforests? The Pleistocene Island Melanesian Evidence, in M. Biesele, R.K. Hitchcock and P.P. Schweitzer (eds) Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern Context: Conflict, Resistance and Self-Determination. Providence, R.I. Berghahn Books.
Contributions to Other Scientific Journals
(a) Prepared before joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS 1980 Taro Irrigation in the Pacific: A call for more Research, South Pacific Bulletin, 30(1):15-18.
M. SPRIGGS 1980 Un Thème de Recherche à Approfondir: L'Irrigation du Taro en Océanie, Bulletin du Pacifique Sud 30(1):15-18. (Translation of preceding publication)
M. SPRIGGS 1983 Mungo's Echo? Pleistocene Terrace Formation in the Western Pacific, Quaternary Australia 1(1 and 2):42-44.
M. SPRIGGS 1983 Archaeology in Tafea: The Southern Vanuatu Culture History Project: Part 1, Naika: The Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 12 (December 1983):2-5.
M. SPRIGGS 1984 Archaeology in Tafea: The Southern Vanuatu Culture History Project: Part 2, Naika: The Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 13 (March 1984):3-8.
M. SPRIGGS, J. CARNEY and S. WILLIAMS 1986 Prehistoric Stone Tools of Aneityum, Naika: The Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 23 (September 1986):18-33. (Spriggs contribution 50%)
(b) Prepared after joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS 1988 A la Recherche du Singe Perdu: An Earlier Non-Human Primate in Australia, Australian Primatology 2(2/3):21-22.
M. SPRIGGS 1989 Tafea Archaeology: an Update, Naika: Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 30 (April 1989):14-17.
M. SPRIGGS and W. MUMFORD 1989 The Rock Art of Aneityum. Naika: Journal of the Vanuatu Natural Science Society 32 (December 1989):16-26. (Spriggs contribution 70%)
M. SPRIGGS 1994 On Being a Foreigner, Southeast Asian Archaeology International Newsletter 4 (April-May): 2-3.
Newspaper Articles
(a) Prepared before joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS 1985 Why Preserve Archaeological Sites?, Historic Hawaii News 11(8) (September 1985):4.
M. SPRIGGS 1986 How Long Have People Lived in the North Solomons?, Arawa Bulletin 652 (12 September).
M.N. CHUN and M. SPRIGGS 1987 New Terms suggested for Hawaiian Prehistory, Ka Wai Ola O OHA 4(2) (February):4. (Spriggs contribution 50%)
(b) Prepared after joining ANU
M. SPRIGGS 1988 Thirty Thousand Years of North Solomons History, Arawa Bulletin 721 (29 January), 722 (5 February).
M. SPRIGGS 1988 Large-Scale Erosion on Kaho'olawe: When did it Start?, Kaho'olawe Aloha 'Aina, May 1988:7.
M. SPRIGGS 1990 In a Bougainville Village, Rumours of War, Times of Papua New Guinea, 15 February 1990, pp.17, 20.
M. SPRIGGS 1990 A Silence Veils Bougainville's Fight for Rights, Canberra Times, 24 December 1990, p.7.
M. SPRIGGS 1991 PNG Still is not Taking Human Rights Seriously. Canberra Times, 27 February 1991, p.9.
M. SPRIGGS 1991 The Long Haul to Compromise and Consensus in Bougainville, Canberra Times, 22 August 1991, p.9.
M. SPRIGGS 1991 Bougainville Talks May Offer Chance for Peace, Canberra Times, 23 August 1991, p.9.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 Radio Says Many Shot on Bougainville, Canberra Times, 9 June 1992, p.8.
M. SPRIGGS 1992 Bougainville's Crisis Explained, The Independent Monthly, August 1992, p.28-9.
M. SPRIGGS 1994 Peace Push to Help Heal Wounds of Island War, Canberra Times, 11 June 1994, p. 12.
M. SPRIGGS 1994 The Best Chance for Peace, The Times of Papua New Guinea, 6 October 1994, p. 4.
M. SPRIGGS 1994 Bougainville Peace Battle, Canberra Times, 8 October 1994, p.16.
M. SPRIGGS 1994 Talking Peace Hard to Arrange, Canberra Times, 16 November 1994, p. 21.
M. SPRIGGS 1994 Reprint of "Talking Peace Hard to Arrange", Pacific News Bulletin 9(12), pp. 2-4. December 1994.
M. SPRIGGS 1996 Islanders Caught in a Web of Lies, Canberra Times, 9 July 1996, p. 9.
M. SPRIGGS 1997 An Albania on our Doorstep, Canberra Times, 25 March 1997, p. 9.